Hi all. I can't seem to get my SMC2624W wifi card working on my C860 under r121. pccardctl recognizes it (exactly as the topic description), but the light just comes on (no blinking) & I get neither eth0 nor wlan0.

What happens if you insert into kernel the required modules manually ?I've no idea though what the modules should be for your card, but if it's prism/orinoco based you could try with the hostap stuff.

Good suggestion. I loaded both hostap & hostap_cs & now we're getting somewhere. I now have both a wifi0 & wlan0 interface & the light on the card is flashing. kewl.

But I can't seem to activate it after that. I installed wifi-radar & changed the conf file to point use wlan0 instead of eth0, but it still won't associate. Then I noticed that I can't get eth0 back up for my nic card until I reboot. mmmmm

Good suggestion. I loaded both hostap & hostap_cs & now we're getting somewhere. I now have both a wifi0 & wlan0 interface & the light on the card is flashing. kewl.

But I can't seem to activate it after that. I installed wifi-radar & changed the conf file to point use wlan0 instead of eth0, but it still won't associate. Then I noticed that I can't get eth0 back up for my nic card until I reboot. mmmmm

You may need to do a ifconfig wlan0 up before issuing any iwconfig commands.

You may need to do a ifconfig wlan0 up before issuing any iwconfig commands.

Here's a copy of the script I've been tweaking to get this working (rename net.txt to net). It works for my lan card (eth0), but I can't seem to get the wifi working yet. For one thing, the hostap modules aren't re-loaded on reboot, but even after I load them again manually, it still doesn't want to come up.

You may need to do a ifconfig wlan0 up before issuing any iwconfig commands.

Here's a copy of the script I've been tweaking to get this working (rename net.txt to net). It works for my lan card (eth0), but I can't seem to get the wifi working yet. For one thing, the hostap modules aren't re-loaded on reboot, but even after I load them again manually, it still doesn't want to come up.

reboot without any card in slotinsert wifi card - light on steady, no wlan0/wifi0pccardctl ejectmodprobe hostap_csinsert card - light blinks, wifi0/wlan0 now presenttried my script, all seems to come up, but fails to try to associatepccardctl ejectinserted ethernet card, no eth0, have to reboot to get that back

reboot without any card in slotinsert wifi card - light on steady, no wlan0/wifi0pccardctl ejectmodprobe hostap_csinsert card - light blinks, wifi0/wlan0 now presenttried my script, all seems to come up, but fails to try to associatepccardctl ejectinserted ethernet card, no eth0, have to reboot to get that back

I managed to figure that I had to add both pcnet_cs & hostap_cs to /etc/modules to have them load automatically on bootup. Now my script will actually connect if I have the symlink /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/net.eth0 -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/net with my ethernet card plugged in. kewl

Anyway, back to wlan0. What series of commands do I have to enter to have wlan0 associate with the first AP it finds using dhcp?

CODE

ifconfig wlan0 upiwconfig wlan0 power ondhcpcd -i wlan0

doesn't do it. What am I missing. And what's the proper command to associate with a specific AP using a WEP key? WPA?

There's an open AP I'm testing on now, but this doesn't seem to work with it. Then again, all I know is the essid. Should I have to specify the channel? The first three commands work (without errors, anyway) but it just hangs on the fourth (the light remains at a steady blink, if that means anything).

I've heard a lot of mention of wpa-supplicant. I see that's it's in the base image. Would that be better to try?

I'll try your suggestion when I get home on my own router & report back. thks

There's an open AP I'm testing on now, but this doesn't seem to work with it. Then again, all I know is the essid. Should I have to specify the channel? The first three commands work (without errors, anyway) but it just hangs on the fourth (the light remains at a steady blink, if that means anything).

I've heard a lot of mention of wpa-supplicant. I see that's it's in the base image. Would that be better to try?

I'll try your suggestion when I get home on my own router & report back. thks

If it hangs on the last... command dhcpcd... the ap you are trying to connect to in most cases doesnt have a running DHCP Server...

Now this is getting frustrating. I get home after making NO further changes, and now no matter what I do I can't get the wlan0 interface to come back up at all. And the light on the card just stays on steady. I've tried ejecting & reinserting it, even a reboot doesn't help. And the modules are still loaded.

Now this is getting frustrating. I get home after making NO further changes, and now no matter what I do I can't get the wlan0 interface to come back up at all. And the light on the card just stays on steady. I've tried ejecting & reinserting it, even a reboot doesn't help. And the modules are still loaded.